Leading mobile, web and social companies such as Google, Apple and Facebook are driving towards paradigm shifts in redefining user experience. Such experiences include intelligent voice driven interfaces and predictive personalized discovery of content as represented in services such as Google NOW, Facebook Graph Search and Apple Siri, for example. As users experience such shifts in ...

Facebook needs machines that can understand the way we humans behave and write and even feel. In January -- after the company rolled out a limited public trial of Graph Search, a way of searching activity on the popular social network -- Facebook engineers were forced to tweak their algorithms so they could translate slang like "pics of ...

Google CEO Larry Page is stepping back from one of his public roles at the company, but investors have hardly lost faith. Instead, they've pushed Google shares past $1,000 -- nearly a mirror-opposite of Apple's year.

Google has recently begun playing with a brand new Quantum computer -- one that it's sharing with researchers at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. And in an effort to spread the quantum computing fun, it's now released a brand new quantum module for the build-your-own-universe game Minecraft.

Novelist Dave Eggers new book the Circle calls to mind one of the most detailed and entertaining accounts of life at Google, a 2005 novel called Virtual Love written by a then-Google executive named Kim Malone Scott.

The new version of Microsoft's operating system is a necessary update. Its added features will please longtime Windows users who were uncomfortable with 8, and push the concepts behind Windows 8 even further.

Google just barely dodged a bullet. The NASA team booted up their D-Wave Two just days before the federal government shutdown would have put a complete stop to the project. But with NASA and Ames almost completely shut down, it's not exactly clear what's happening with the machine.

Nearly every automaker is working on some form of autonomous vehicle technology, but according to a new study, consumers are more interested in an autonomous car from Google rather than General Motors.

Shower moments. We've all had them. Even Archimedes had one. Suddenly, all the dots connect and an idea forms. (Yes. I know. Archimedes actually had a "bathtub moment" when he discovered how to measure the volume of a solid, but the principle is the same.) These soapy moments of creativity feel as though they come ...

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. It's too bad that Congress didn't get the memo -- it might have been useful to consider prior to shutting down the government. Regardless of where you stand on the political spectrum and your view on the shutdown, there's one thing that is not open for debate: Shutting down the ...

Innovation is clearly the buzzword du jour in tech. "Innovation" is taking over that top spot from "cloud," which everyone now understands. OK, maybe not everyone, but anyone worth their salt in tech is well versed in the technology that is driving massive changes in the business economy. And this transition makes sense, since everyone ...

Spotify did it for music. Netflix did it for movies. And now, Trip Adler and Scribd are doing it for books. The 29-year-old entrepreneur and his six-year-old San Francisco startup just unveiled an online subscription service that gives you unlimited access to a large library of digital books for a flat monthly fee, including titles from big-name publishing house HarperCollins.

France's national law enforcement agency, the Gendarmerie, is now running 37,000 desktop PCs with a custom version of the Linux operating system, and by summer of next year, the agency plans to move all 72,000 of its desktop machines to the open source OS.

Our world is driven by a new kind of machinery. Across the globe, the likes of Google, Apple, and Facebook are building massive data centers -- temples of modern technology -- that drive so much of what we see and do on everything from smartphones and tablets to laptops and PCs and televisions. These aren't merely buildings filled with computer servers that push data across the internet. They're artfully designed, finely tuned creations that juggle information with unprecedented efficiency. The irony is that most of these decidedly modern facilities are still powered by an infrastructure created a half century ago -- or more

The world trusts Google to deliver quality internet search results. And now, it's delivering your toilet paper, too. That may sound like nonsense, but it's true, and it could lead to a weird new world where the stuff you need arrives at your side before you even realize you need it. On Wednesday, Google announced that ...

Google is asking a federal appeals court to reconsider a recent ruling finding Google potentially liable for wiretapping when it secretly intercepted data on open Wi-Fi routers. The search giant said the Sept. 10 decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will create "confusion" over which over-the-air signals are protected by the Wiretap Act, including broadcast television.

Existing intellectual property laws don't exactly cover 3D printing. Intellectual property rights holders should become aware of the risks and secure the rights they have, but also look at other creative ways to discourage unauthorized 3D printing. 3D printing will test U.S. intellectual property laws, just as software, MP3 players, and the Internet did. People adapted ...